One on one time with the fam!

Nothing beats quality time with family. We did a LOT of fun stuff while my family was in town but my favorite moments are talking, laughing and spending some great one on one time with them! We spent some time at our house as well as my Grandma Bailey's house. Here are some fun pictures from just hanging out...

Bailey loves Ava so much, she is a bit obsessed with her
Ava trying out Bailey's bouncer...she loved it!Ok, ok she was really obsessed with her!
Chris has a drum set that he loves sooo much, so he was so excited when he had another buddy to play them with. Owen and Chris made a rock band in our walk in closet! Gotta love boys! This is also one of Bailey's favorite pastimes! She will sometimes disappear in our room and we hear the drums start going, she is a doll!

Here is Bailey helping Papa with the computer...

Bailey cuddling up with Great-Grandma Bailey
Bailey and Owen playing pool...
Bailey loves to throw the balls as hard as she can...watch out!

Owen and Bailey splashing in the hot tub

When Canyon came up to Owen in the back yard, Owen hid behind Lisa and was so serious when he said "Is he going to eat me? Am I going to die?" Oh my gosh we laughed so hard!

Once we taught Bailey how to say cheese we try to get her to do it all the time!
CHEESE!
Vauri had Ava giggling away in the car! It melted our hearts!
My parents went to Hawaii a couple months ago and got Bailey a hula outfit, she was not so sure about it!


We put it on Owen and he loved it!

Bath time at Grandma Bailey's house
I love that I took bath's in this exact same bath tub when I was her age. I also love that she plays with the same exact bath toys I played with in this tub!


Blowing bubbles



I also love that there are these exact same pictures of me on my tippy toes trying to play this piano that has always been in this exact same spot! Being at my Grandma Bailey's house brings back some great memories!



I love her big brown eyes!
We also spent a lot of time in the car! We had my Dad's pilot we three rows of seats so we had Dad and Mom in the front, all three car seats in the middle and me and Vauri sardined in the very back! It was fun!

Here is Memaw and Ava in the car waiting...
Vauri and her adorable kids!

Pineview

My family came to town the week after the 4th of July. I loved having them here the whole time and I tried to spend every second with them. We had such a fun and busy week, so I am going to do separate posts for each of the things we did because I have a million pictures that we took on Vauri's new camera. They came up to Starvation on Saturday after the 4th of July but I don't have those pictures yet so I will start with Monday. My Uncle Stan has a Catamaran so decided it would be fun to take it up to Pineview to spend a day at the lake. Bailey was quite exhausted from a weekend of camping but once we got her out on the boat she calmed down. Boats do that for her, she just becomes very calm. It was hard to keep her from climbing all over my little niece Ava. She loved her sooo much. It was really cute.

Fun times on the catamaran here is my handsome Dad...
Me, Vauri, and the kiddos
Me, Veronica, Bailey and Owen
Vauri and Owen getting ready to sail
Vauri, Owen and Papa
Mom and Dad getting ready to sail
Mom, Dad, Uncle Stan
Now it's our turn... but we had too many people so we went really slow and at one point one side started to sink! I was freaked out!


Mom and Dad by themselves!Stan and Dad
Brothers bonding on the lake! Dad, Uncle Phil and Stan
Playing in the water...Vauri and Ava
Veronica, Mom, Bailey, Vauri and Owen
Me and Bailey
Playing on the shore...going to feed the birds
My brown eyed girl...
Cuddling with mommy...she was exhausted
Bailey trying to poke Ava's eye out. She loved her a little too much!
Help me mom!
Loves her little cousin!

Beach babe!
Ava and Aunt Sally
Veronica and Owen
Stan and Sally
Ownie
What a cutie!
Cheese!
Love this girlie~

4th of July weekend

For the 4th of July weekend this year we decided a camping/boating trip would be fun. It was strange not doing fireworks and a bbq at our house like we do every other year, but it was such an amazing weekend. We went to Starvation lake because it was the only lake that was still taking reservations. Chris and I found the perfect site that could hold all of our trailers and it was right on the water so the kids could play all day in it. We had a huge group with us. There was us, Bob and Cindy, Adam and Erin, Steve and his friend, Dave and Tiff and a few of their friends and family. Nick, Tracy, Cade, Nell, my Dad, Mom, Uncle Stan and Aunt Sally and kids came up for a day too. The lake was so beautiful, but the major problem is the mosquitoes. It was seriously insane. We got out to look at another camp site the first day and we were being attacked by swarms of them, it felt like we were in a scarry movie and we ran back to our car as fast as we could. Really though I loved that weekend I have the best family and friends we always have such a good time together! I am so lucky to have you all in my life! I took a ton of pictures on a disposable camera but of course I haven't developed them yet so I just have a few pics that my Mother in law, Cindy emailed me!

Me and Bailey
Giving some loves on the boat
Cindy holding Brooklyn on the boat
Cindy and Bob with Bailey and Brooklyn
Bailey and Brooklyn playing on the beach